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tion of a roadway in the immediate neighbourhood
of inhabited houses.
Proceedings under the Sanitary Act, 1866.
The Sanitary Act passed last Session confers
on the Vestry powers of very great value for the
maintenance of public health,several of which have
been beneficially exercised in the Parish during
the short period which has elapsed since it came
into force. The first in importance of its powers
is unquestionably that which enables the Nuisance
Authority, with the sanction of the Secretary of
State, to make regulations as to lodgings. Strongly
convinced that great sanitary benefits would result
from the exercise of this power in certain parts of
Paddington, I lost no time in introducing the
subject in one of my fortnightly Reports. On the
3rd of January the question was carefully considered
by the Sanitary Committee, who appointed a
Sub.Committee of their number to prepare draft
regulations, which, having been approved of, were
finally submitted to the Vestry. The further steps
which have been taken in this matter will come
within the scope of the next Annual Statement.
The 22nd Section gives power to the Local
Authority to cause premises in which contagious
disease has occurred, to be cleansed and disinfected ;
and it is further provided in the 39th Section that
if any person "knowingly lets any house, room, or
"part of a house in which any person suffering
"from any dangerous infectious disorder has been,